15,000 women empowered with N4.5bn

The Kaduna State Government has launched the domestication of the National Women’s Economic Empowerment Policy and approved a substantial N4.5 billion as a special intervention for 15,000 households in the state. The Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Rabi Salisu, disclosed this at a one-day citizens’ engagement workshop organised by the Development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) to support the domestication of the national policy in the state.

She said the state was determined to invest in women and girls through various interventions in economic development, education, agriculture and entrepreneurship.

While commending dRPC for supporting the state in domesticating the policy, she assured that Kaduna would be a pacesetter in promoting, developing and uplifting the standard of living of women.

Earlier, the Executive Director of dRPC, Dr Judith-Ann Walker, represented by the Director of Partnerships and Communications, Malam Hassan Aliyu Karofi, disclosed that the rationale behind the support to the state was to support inclusion, noting that 24 more states had been earmarked to be supported to domesticate the policy.